And it filled Americans with pride in their tradition of freedom and openness to people from all lands.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

La Pendue is a puppet group from France that performs its own version of the Polichinelle tradition.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

One family from Ohio has a very different kind of Fourth of July tradition in their neighborhood.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Tradition says he cleared forests from the northeastern United States to the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Some reports say rapping came from the West African tradition of Griots.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

"You know,I think the goal each year is going to change. This year, I think, just starting and building a foundation that we can build from and create a tradition of women's lacrosse here at Ballou."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

"One of the great traditions that I really appreciate here at First Congregational is that we do an annual service of 'Nine Lessons and Carols,' which is in the old King's College tradition from England.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

This is a part of an old tradition where dancers wearing costumes or animal furs dance from house to house to bring good luck.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

Just a few meters from where mass was celebrated, thousands of pilgrims visited the ancient grotto where according to Christian tradition, Jesus was born.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"As Wooden enters the playing court, he receives a standing ovation from an overflow crowd and true to the Wooden tradition, on the outside everything appears calm."

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

He was from a long,great military tradition.

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